The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 98
I am so impatient to see my beloved princess once more that I am sure I shall fall ill again if we do not start soon.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: be, see, fall, not start · To what, where: beloved princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 impatient | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impatient | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 impatient | advmod |
| 4 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impatient | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 princess | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | amod |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 see | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 see | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 sure | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sure | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sure | cop |
| 15 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 see | ccomp |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | aux |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fall | xcomp |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 fall | advmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 start | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 start | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 start | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 start | advmod |
| 25 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fall | advcl |
| 26 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 start | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impatient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | impatient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | my beloved princess | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall | shall | I | again | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not start a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | we | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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